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Block 256,996

Found by GHash.IO 26 minutes after the block before it. Its 653 transactions paid 0.36934019 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 653 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 20:54 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.36934019 BTC
Reward
25.36934019 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 58 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 4.9 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 79% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,995, the block before it. Change anything in that block and its hash changes, so this one no longer fits: that is what makes the blocks a chain. Block 256,997 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000a28a369a0a7f8ac5662b04270257449fcd3b78f8eae945097
Previous hash
0000000000000024adb39bcebbc9d9293c24e0d4fd0bf5caa4bcf4c218e649a5
Merkle root
0d9acc10c2f30c943d207d2833b0759e05243fbd3bfc5a5164a340a1dc586f2d
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,973,184,944
Timestamp
1378760090
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 20:04 UTC
Weight
996,548 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dcba1f72dcc38f62f6

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /P2SH/ I'G%p ghash.io

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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